Mike Burke: 'Dancing with the Stars' is a silly event

ABC Television This season's lineup of stars for "Dancing with the Stars" includes tennis great Martina Navratilova, shown here during a rehearsal with her professional dancing partner, Tony Dovolani

Call me a curmudgeon, if you will, but there are a lot of things I really don’t care about in this world. These are things I have no time to fuss over or talk about or even to give a second thought.

I do not care about who wins those television reality shows, and I’ve never even watched a minute of any of them. People on islands in tribes or something, or people racing around the world, or people eating bugs? Nope, no time for any of that stuff.

I don’t care about who wins those silly “Dancing With the Stars” events either. One question, are those “celebrities“ still popular, or were they ever really stars?

I don’t care if Hollywood people or singers or whatever are in rehab, again.

I don’t care who wins those talent shows on television either. Seems to me the one who screams the loudest always wins anyway. Is that really singing? Frank Sinatra must be rolling over on this one.

I don’t care if Tiger Woods ever wins a major golf tournament. I mean, I’m happy he’s back out there, but I root against him.

I don’t care what departing baseball players say about fans, like Jonathan Papelbon comments on Boston Red Sox fans. He blew some big games and saved some big games during his tenure in Boston. He got paid a lot of money to play a kids’ game. If he’s mad at anyone he should look in the mirror. That goes for anyone else of his ilk as well.

I really don’t care where Tim Tebow plays football. I also don’t care if he kneels down and prays every time he does something on the field. He might have a good year in New York, and he might not. So what?

I don’t care about politicians who end up going to jail for one abuse of the taxpayers money or more than one. If you do the crime do the time, the cliché goes. No sympathy for any of those jerks.

I don’t care about ratings on television. I watch what I watch, and if the shows go off the air I watch something else.

I don’t care what religion you are or what you believe in. I’m happy you believe in something. I know what I believe, and I absolutely refuse to argue with anyone over that belief.

I don’t really care about anyone’s politics either. You should vote your preferences, and that’s fine and that’s what this country is all about. I have mine. You have yours. Great. We all have choices, and we are very lucky we live in a country that allows us to have them.So far anyway.

Michael J. Burke, of Holyoke, is retired from The Republican. He can be reached at ekrubm@verizon.net